Re: Finding a name inside of an email

David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
> * Jon <jonr@destar.net> [2005-02-22 22:16 +0100]:
>
>>I need to find a name in an email the name is ledoux, I was thinking
>>'find' might be an answer and my sed/awk skills are only in chapter 2 of
>>my sed/awk book.
>
>
> My immediate response would be to pipe the email through the following
> command:
>
> grep ledoux
>
> You may also want to use the '-i' option which ignores case.
>
> However, I don't know much about evolution, or your mail setup... is
> evolution pipe friendly?
>
> Regards,

I should have clarified this a little better. I have about 1000 emails
that I need to go through and find that one name. I am using qmail with
mialdirs so all of the users email is in one directory which then splits
into three, cur, new and tmp.

Thanks again,

Jon
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Received on Tue Feb 22 13:00:23 2005